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Missouri Open 2015 - An Attempt at a Critique of all Real Knowledge Questions by Will Alston, Itamar Naveh-Benjamin, Shan Kothari, Rohith Nagari, and Ewan Macaulay Packet 11 TOSSUPS 1. Troop deployments at this battle relied on a bridge over the Bormida river. General Anton von Zach was captured at this battle after three brigades of grenadiers were routed by François Kellermann’s cavalry charge, though Louis Desaix was shot off his horse during the process. The crushing of Michael von Melas’ armies at this battle eventually forced the (*) signing of the Treaty of Lunéville, which ended the War of the Second Coalition. For 10 points, name this battle in which Napoleon drove the Austrians out of northern Italy. ANSWER: Battle of Marengo 2. The speaker of one of this author’s poems “laughed and laughed into the sky, / Till at my throat a strangling sob / Caught fiercely.” When another of this poet’s speakers was only “knee-high,” he was told: “There’s nothing in the house / But a loaf-end of rye”, and an (*) object with a “woman’s head” that “Nobody will buy.” The speaker of another of this author’s poems delights in an object that “gives a lovely light!” For 10 points, name this author of “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver,” whose poem “First Fig” opens: “My candle burns at both ends.” ANSWER: Edna St. Vincent Millay 3. An artist from this country painted scenes of bourgeois and future revolutions inside a Polyforum located in its capital. Charles Darwin and a broken statue of Jupiter appear at the left of a painting from this country whose center shows a worker looking up at a huge machine. The painter of (*) The March of Humanity was from this country, as was an artist whose work Nelson Rockefeller had destroyed over a depiction of Lenin. Man at the Crossroads was painted by an artist from - for 10 points - what home country of muralists David Siqueiros and Diego Rivera? ANSWER: Mexico [or United Mexican States; or Estados Unidos Mexicanos] 4. In Dzogchen, one of these phenomena may be observed around the dead body of someone who has achieved bodhi. Ezekiel’s “wheel within a wheel vision” compares the radiance of God to these phenomena, one of which is created in Genesis 9. Borlung, Ngalyod, and Yingarna are names for a creature (*) named for these phenomena that created law during the Dreamtime. Alfred Radcliffe-Brown named the serpent worshipped by Aborigines after - for 10 points - what symbol put in the sky by God to symbolize the covenant after Noah’s flood? ANSWER: rainbows [accept Rainbow Serpents; prompt on “covenant”] 5. This country was the site of a settlement on “Beautiful Hill” led by the preacher Anthony the Counselor. This country’s late 19th-century politics were dominated by bosses called colonels. The Prestes column marched during the second of two rebellions in this country led by officers called tenentes. This country, where the (*) Canudos War was fought, underwent a period of “coffee and milk politics” until a revolution that led to the creation of Petrobras. For 10 points, identify this country whose Estado Novo was led by Getulio Vargas. ANSWER: Federative Republic of Brazil [or Republica Federativa do Brasil] 6. The only known example of a phi bond has been observed in a diatomic form of this element. A CO2 laser is used in the Silex process to separate isotopes of this element, whose acetate is commonly used as a negative stain in electron microscopy. Lead-206 is the (*) final product in a nuclear decay chain that begins with this element, processing of whose ores involves an intermediate known as yellowcake. Gaseous centrifugation of this element’s hexafluoride can separate its 235 and 238 isotopes. For 10 points, name this radioactive element with symbol U. ANSWER: Uranium [or U before mention] 7. In most Bantu languages, there are few root words of this type and these words comprise a generally closed class only added to through derivation. The phrase “rather interested in that” is an example of a head-medial phrase named for these words. In English, archaic and poetic use accounts for much postpositive use of these words, as in “this is the (*) forest primeval.” In Romance languages, these words agree in number, gender, and case with the words they modify and come after them. For 10 points, identify these words that describe some quality of a noun. ANSWER: adjectives 8. This writer described a fellow poet’s eye as “the spark that shakes the wire” and which “makes all things quiver with the past.” This poet asked, “Is it all real? Is it time now to drift away?” in “The End,” the last section of a poetry collection that opens with, “In Memory of the Demon,” and is titled (*) My Sister - Life. The title character of a novel by this author falls in love with a woman who shot Komarovsky at a Christmas party. For 10 points, name this Russian author who wrote about Lara’s relationship with Yuri in the novel Doctor Zhivago. ANSWER: Boris Pasternak 9. A king of this name ordered all bridges to be fortified to prevent Viking raids in the Edictum Pistense. Notker the Stammerer collected anecdotes about a ruler of this name who created the Spanish March after his son captured Barcelona. A king with this name received the westernmost lands of his father in the (*) Treaty of Verdun. A king known as “the Bald” had this name, as did a ruler who employed Alcuin of York and Einhard and made his court at Aachen. For 10 points, give the name of the man crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in 800. ANSWER: Charles [or Carolus; accept Charlemagne or Carolus Magnus] 10. One of these particles arises as a solution to the Seiberg-Witten equations while another one of them was the first solution to the Yang-Mills field equations. Bogomol’nyi names the lower bound for the mass of these particles, which come in Wu-Yang and (*) t’Hooft-Polyakov varieties and can be considered uncharged dyons. According to Dirac, quantization of charge follows from these particles’ existence, which would also invalidate Gauss’s law for magnetism. For 10 points, name these unobserved hypothetical particles consisting of either a north or south pole. ANSWER: magnetic monopoles 11. After being denied immediate entry into a castle, this figure threatens to place a curse bringing miscarriages to all of the pregnant women within. This figure gives a golden ring to a shepherd who owns a fire-breathing hound. This figure’s cousin aids him in retrieving a comb and a pair of scissors from between the ears of a giant (*) boar as part of a series of tasks to win the hand of Ysbaddaden’s daughter. For 10 points, name this cousin of King Arthur who, after rejecting his stepsister, was cursed to marry none but the beautiful Olwen. ANSWER: Kilhwch [or Culhwch] 12. In Morocco, smen is a form of this substance that is buried in the ground for a few months. In Tibet, tea containing this substance, known as po cha or cha suma, is a popular drink. Biochemically, its production involves changing a fat-in-water emulsion to a water-in-fat by (*) rupturing lipoprotein membranes surrounding fat globules. Hollandaise contains egg yolk, lemon juice and this ingredient. A clarified form of this food is known in India as ghee. For 10 points, name this dairy product you can spread on toast. ANSWER: butter or ghee [prompt on “fat”] 13. Description acceptable. Felix de Weldon made a wax model of this image which he later used as the basis for a memorial he designed. Ira Hayes descended into alcoholism thanks to the fame given him by this “gung- ho” photograph, which was taken as its creator turned around, though for a half-century it was charged that this photograph was (*) staged. This photo taken by Joe Rosenthal depicts six men, only three of whom lived through the year, on top of Mount Suribachi. For 10 points, name this iconic WWII photo showing a flag being raised during a Pacific battle. ANSWER: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima [accept anything involving a flag and Iwo Jima] 14. Criticism of the holder of this position is still prohibited by lèse-majesté laws as of a 2007 constitution. Implicit disloyalty to this state-heading position was a major criticism of the late 2000s anti-aristocracy “Red Shirt” movement. A proclamation issued by a holder of this position put (*) Yingluck Shinawatra into office. Prayut Chan-o-cha’s government propaganda is based on loyalty to this position’s holder. Members of the Chakri dynasty control - for 10 points - what monarchical position, whose holder Rama IX governs from Bangkok? ANSWER: King of Thailand [or King of Siam from old-timey people] 15. As a child, this novel’s protagonist pretends to hide from “Red Indians” in a pillow fort. After returning to school from a bout of scarlet fever, the protagonist discovers his friend Rose has acquired a new best friend. At this novel’s end, the protagonist’s Uncle William dies at the Blackstable estate. The protagonist attempts to patch up his relationship with the (*) syphilitic Mildred Rogers before eventually marrying Sally Athelny. Dr. Jacobs operates on Philip Carey’s clubfoot in – for 10 points – what novel by William Somerset Maugham? ANSWER: Of Human Bondage 16. This man’s views on being and truth are the first of three critiques of the concept of structure presented in Jacques Derrida’s “Structure, Sign, and Play.” This thinker identified free will and confusing cause and effect as two of four great errors of philosophy.

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